oh i see what you mean. You’re kind of visualizing it like a flip side of a coin or card, take the word “swims” and turn it upside down by actually turning it 180 degrees.
THATS WHAT UPSIDE DOWN MEANS
bella do me a favor and literally write down the word on a piece of paper and turn it upside down
OKAY BUT I DONT SEE HOW THATS GONNA
oh
Ironically enough, your sad, angry smiley face will also read the same when turned upside down…
“Not for medicine,” John reminds him. “Also, you never finished university.”
“Fine,” Sherlock waves a hand. “I can still argue that this method of healing is not scientifically proven. Nor is it actually a healing method for anyone over the physical age of five years.”
“Right then,” John turns away. “I can see that you don’t want it to get better right away…”
Sherlock makes a small, frustrated noise. “Fine, yes! Okay,” He holds out his slightly burned hand. “You may kiss it better.”
I love how, because of that “Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure” Onion headline, “cinnamon roll” has become a commonly accepted phrase for “a character who is cute and kind and typically gets more pain in canon than they deserve”.
Like, we didn’t have a real phrase for that common phenomenon (wubbie maybe, but that has negative connotations ie “this character has been wubbiefied by the fandom”) and then someone used a screenshot of a headline from a satire news website to describe it, and then everyone else was like “yes good let’s use this”. You couldn’t make that shit up. I bet there are people who use that phrase now who didn’t even see that headline.
Language is evolving right before our eyes in a very weird and beautiful way and I am very very sorry for future linguist who have to puzzle this shit out.
thinking about how lesbians’ sexuality is always under a microscope that if a lesbian has a favourite male character or actor or anything they are instantly questioned and doubted like “are you sure you’re actually a lesbian??” but not many people question gay men who have idols who are women…
It’s all about what’s not said in this scene, rather than what’s said. And the speed with which they talk. Everything’s under the surface, or at least, we try to keep everything under the surface. - Joe Wright